Accessory and decorations

In the Elizabethan era women would decorate their hair using purse, ribbons and feathers. In a lot of queen Elizabeth the 1^st portraits her hair is beautifully decorated in purls.

Below is a beautiful modern Elizabethan hair look done using twist, plats, ribbons and purls. The ribbon have been weaved in through the twists.

The above hair is very Elizabethan. The way its twisted in to a up do looks like a hair style one would expect an Elizabethan woman to have everything from the twist, plats, ribbons to the purls.

 

i to had the opportunity to create an simple Elizabethan look.

1. divide the hair into two ( make sure it is well brushed)
2. french plated one side using a red ribbon and the other side without.
3. using a wight ribbon i stared to weave it in using a needle
4. i crisscrossed all thought the two french plat as if tying a shoe lase
5. when i reached the end i knotted the two ends together and added a bow as an extra decoration

       all in all i like the final result of my Elizabethan look. however next time i will avid spacing out the ribbon and also use the red ribbon in both french plats. i will also try and get a more defined center parting.

equipment's used

• hair brush 
• tail comb
• ribbons
• needle
• a bow